Thursday, April 19, 2007

What the other six OMOM covers would say

If it were financially feasible, I'd have had Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A HistoricalGuide published with half a dozen different covers: one aimed at tourists, one at New Yorkers, one at Objectivists, one at art lovers, one at historians, one at librarians, and one at insatiable readers like me, who have been known to read books completely outside their field of interest if they offer new perspectives on how to think, rather than information guaranteed to be useful within the next week.
My most recent find in this category was Haffner's Defying Hitler. Although I have no immediate application for further knowledge about Nazi Germany, Haffner's style is riveting and his description of the behavior of himself and his compatriots was fascinating - an excellent supplement to Peikoff's The Ominous Parallels, which discusses the philosophical causes of Nazism in detail. This is off the supposed topic of this blog entry, but I liked the Haffner book so much that I wanted to recommend it highly before I forget about it.
For the blurbs that would appear on the other covers, see the Forgotten Delights website.

About Me

Freelance lecturer on art history for 20+ years. Author of Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide (New York Univ. Press, 2007 - now available in stores and on Amazon) and Forgotten Delights: The Producers (2003).